[In vote] Xeno Alliance | XA-

[Xeno Alliance]

As supporting evidence: this is from vanilla freelancer:

The Xenos are currently one of the poorest of all the criminal factions, so they have little resources to buy better ships and weapons. To gain a more stable income stream, they hope to evict the Junkers from Texas, and ultimately New York, and thus control a crucial market for Cardamine.

Logically and logistically it makes sense to try to tap into the cardamine market for the Xenos, given their exceedingly weak position. Going up against an entity like the junkers for 0 payoff beyond 'THEY TOOK MERH JOHB' seems fairly foolish, and a missed interesting RP opportunity. Shame to see it go to waste, maybe some day we'll see another xeno faction spring up and try to make use of that bit of vanilla lore.

We go after junkers because they bring and allow to flourish elements like the rogues, outcasts, lanehackers, etc. Then there's the slaving and smuggling too. Not because they took our jobs which.. I kind of doubt, we weren't really in the scrap business.

Cardamine is a highly foreign and disgusting drug. It enslaves Liberty to the Outcasts. Tell me why it makes sense for an ultra nationalist terrorist group to seek chemical enslavement to another external country?

Despite it being my personal views on that vanilla lore being utter hogwash that wasn't thought out really, it's also always been XA's view on cardamine and it always will be if I can help it.

It's a point of pride for XA that, though we're not very successful, we have not lost sight of our goal in the pursuit of base human vices like greed. Such befell the Mollys, Unioners, Lane Hackers, etc. Such is stated in our faction information. So yes, our refusal to extort beyond our ideological beliefs and refusal to enslave Liberty to Malta makes us less successful. But it keeps Xenos pure and, although doomed to fail, that's admirable in and of itself.

Besides, our main pull is being the underdogs. And transport blues. Can't forget those.

Edit: I apologize for the abrasiveness. I've been very passionate about this faction ever since I joined 5 years ago and can get a little heated when defending it. I'm sure that's familiar for a lot of people that've gotten sucked into disco :p.

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